Does Scrivener have an simmer feature or equivalent to Apple Pages’ “Change Tracking” feature. Allowing you to see what you’ve changed while Change Tracking is enabled?
Yes.
You need for that to use snapshots.
You take a snapshot at times you judge to be a “key moment”. Meaning before and/or after significant edits, or when you know you have got a version you want to preserve and be able to go back to, if needed.
And then later on, if you go to the snapshots tab, you can use the Compare feature.
In my example, I originally had “mean looking” as my text.
Took a snapshot of that.
Then edited my text to “odd looking”, selected the snapshot I wanted the editor’s content to be compared to, and finally hit the Compare button. (Which displays as Original while the files are being compared.)
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You step out of compare mode via the same button. (“Original”)
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You can also compare two snapshots to one another. (It doesn’t have to be editor’s content vs snapshot.)
→ If you select only one snapshot, it’ll be compared to the editor’s content. Select two, they’ll be compared to one another.
You can also copy the result of the comparison to the editor (preferably in a new document) if needed.
That allows to save the comparison result somewhere, so that it is easy to go back to.
Or for better convenience, provided by the editor ; whichever the case.
You could also emulate that your own way, as in “manually”, if you desire, by rather using revision colors.
Format / Revision Mode
EDIT: I only just now noticed that you are running iOS and not MacOS. Hopefully that feature is part of the Scrivener’s version you are using.
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Thank you so much for the reply!
Unfortunately it appears Snapshots aren’t on the iPad version, but it’s still good to know about because I often jump from my iPad to my computer for light editing where I now know I can take a Snapshot. But, it would be a nice feature to have on the iPad in the future.
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You mean that everything you do (aside from the range available from undo) is permanent ?
Ouch.
Hey! Check this out :
Might be worth something 
You still wouldn’t be able to use the compare feature in iOS, but perhaps that could be part of the solution ? Where you’d be able to generate snapshots from within iOS, and then compare them using your desktop.
You could probably trick Scrivener iOS into taking as many snapshots as you want, telling it to sync whenever you want it to take them. (As per the feature’s name in my above screenshot, I’d expect snapshots to only be taken for modified documents. Just like when you link snapshots to manual saves in a desktop version.)
That’s a neat feature to leverage, to track iOS changes.
This is out of the box thinking. 
The thing is, this feature works from the Windows side, so every time Windows Scriv does a Sync with Mobile Device it will create a snapshot for every updated document it detects. So you could sync 20 times from the iOS device, but I don’t believe you’ll get any snapshots until Sync with Mobile Device happens in Windows Scriv. But that doesn’t happen automatically. It happens either from launching Windows Scrivener or invoking Sync with Mobile Device.
Best,
Jim
Well… I thought there’d be the same function in iOS from what I red from the post I screenshotted above. (Yep, I misred.)
Doesn’t iOS have anything that could be used to trick it? Sync with external folder, perhaps?
Or iOS just doesn’t handle snapshots at all…(?)
Not even invisible in the background. (?)
No, nothing from the iOS Scriv side of things–at least not that I can think of.
From Windows Scriv you could write code, say in Autohotkey, to invoke Sync With Mobile Device every 10 minutes or so. 
But it would just be dumb luck if it syncs exactly when you want it to, and more than likely you’d end up with sync errors/conflicts. 
But I think your original suggestion to enable the Mobile Sync > Take Snapshots setting gets the OP in a better place. At least they’ll have a sort of stockpiled record of iOS changes every time they launch Windows Scriv, which is an improvement over what they have now.
Best,
Jim
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Isn’t the Sync in the screenshot in reference to “Sync with External Folder”. IOS/iPadOS doesn’t use that but gets Dropbox to sync what’s in the Scrivener sandbox with what’s in Dropbox, so when your Windows/Mac machine opens it in Scrivener, does it also create a snapshot?
I bought iOS Scrivener when it first came out, but couldn’t really get on with it, but keep it up to date for emergencies. For me it has no advantages over full Scrivener on my MacBook Air.
Mark
Does for me, I can’t/won’t carry my MacBookPro when walking through my local woods or wandering around my local supermarket. Both excellent spots for observing people and capturing characters. Might even try using Siri to capture notes when driving my car!
Also useful when I have my MBP with me but the London Tube carriage is sardine tinned requiring me to stand and can’t get the laptop out. iPhone-ing with Scrivener essential then.
Ooo I’ll have to that a try and see how it works/ when it syncs
Unfortunately, as @JimRac pointed out, that is most likely (or most certainly – I don’t know) a dead end. 
Although I have to say that if you really really really want to be able to take snapshots in the iOS version, you could.
Using wits, strategically duplicating documents, and generating snapshots from the different versions of a duplicated document, once back on your desktop.
I know I could.
I wouldn’t let some absent feature stop me.
I never have my MBA nor my iPAD with me when I’m out walking or in the supermarket or wherever. If I ever need to make a note while I’m out and about, I use my iPhone and use Notes.app or Notebooks and then deal with it when I get home.
Mark
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I guess there’s a lot of different work flows. I know someone who doesn’t like using Scrivener on iOS/iPadOS vary much. Then there’s me who uses Scrivener almost exclusively on my iPad.